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MPs’ business costs

Dr Andrew Murrison

IPSA paid £1,903,567 against 2,218 published rows for Dr Andrew Murrison between 2010-11 and 2025-26 as the member for South West Wiltshire CC. These are the costs of running an office and employing staff under IPSA’s rules. They are not salary, and the largest part of them is wages IPSA pays to the member’s employees rather than money the member receives.

By category, 2024-25

108 claims, £171,949 paid. The headings are IPSA’s own categories grouped; the categories inside each are named on the register page.

CategoryWhat it coversClaimsPaidShare
StaffingThe salaries and employment costs of the people an MP employs to run their office and casework. IPSA pays these directly; they are not money an MP receives.3£153,98889.6%
Office costsRenting and running a constituency office: rent, utilities, equipment, stationery and postage.78£9,4095.5%
AccommodationThe cost of somewhere to stay for an MP whose constituency is far enough from Westminster that IPSA's rules allow it. An MP representing a London seat is not eligible on the same terms.22£5,4693.2%
TravelJourneys between the constituency and Westminster and within the constituency. Until 2018-19 IPSA published one travel category; from 2019-20 it publishes travel by the MP, by staff and by a dependant separately.5£3,0831.8%

Every year in the register

Dr Andrew Murrison’s own years, not the register’s: the first is 2010-11 and the last is 2025-26. Figures are not adjusted for inflation, so a rise between two distant years is partly a rise in prices. Select a year to read it on its own.

YearClaimsStaffingOffice costsAccommodationTravelMiscellaneousTotal
2010-11212£57,611£13,444£1,671£3,115—£75,842
2011-12149£61,040£18,790£7,957£3,972£395£92,155
2012-13173£61,521£18,329£6,399£2,550—£88,799
2013-14187£67,049£17,399£4,009£1,637—£90,094
2014-15167£70,445£13,939£2,537£1,833—£88,752
2015-16219£87,310£16,720£1,972£4,274£438£110,714
2016-17187£106,837£18,278£3,834£4,118—£133,067
2017-18156£125,609£17,116£4,759£3,244£380£151,108
2018-1984£117,822£18,051£7,039£3,674—£146,586
2019-20122£84,648£19,294£3,420£2,674£360£110,396
2020-21119£112,906£17,899£4,397£2,225—£137,428
2021-22112£128,341£17,877£3,229£3,035£360£152,842
2022-23102£133,994£19,870£5,794£3,427—£163,086
2023-2480£141,291£23,082£6,440£2,991—£173,804
2024-25108£153,988£9,409£5,469£3,083—£171,949
2025-2641—£10,677£6,269——£16,946

A year in which Dr Andrew Murrison joined or left the House part-way through is a part year, and is not comparable with a full one.

What each category is made of, 2024-25

The cost types IPSA records inside each heading, largest first by what it paid.

Staffing

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Payroll1£148,723
Pooled staffing services2£5,265

Office costs

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Stationery & printing34£3,220
Rent1£2,471
Venue hire, meetings & surgeries9£1,710
Software & applications1£720
Website hosting and design2£372
Mobile telephone - contract & usage11£359

Accommodation

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Service charge & ground Rent4£3,346
Council tax1£1,189
Utilities17£934

Travel

Cost typeClaimsPaid
Rail1£2,184
Mileage - car2£775
Parking2£123

Largest claims, 2024-25

The 15 rows IPSA paid most against, with IPSA’s own description of each. Read the description before the amount: IPSA publishes most of a member’s staffing as one row for the whole year — “Total Staffing budget payroll costs for the ⟨year⟩ year” — so the largest row here is usually a year of wages for the member’s employees and not something bought.

DateCategoryCost typeDescriptionClaimedPaid
31 March 2025StaffingPayrollTotal Staffing budget payroll costs for the 2024-25 year£148,723£148,723
22 April 2024StaffingPooled staffing servicesPolicy Research Unit (Conservative)£3,550£3,550
31 March 2025Office CostsRentAggregated figure for this business cost and budget category in 2024-25£2,471£2,471
31 March 2025MP TravelRailAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£2,184£2,184
17 September 2024StaffingPooled staffing servicesPolicy Research Unit (Conservative)£1,715£1,715
20 April 2024Office CostsVenue hire, meetings & surgeries—£1,200£1,200
12 April 2024AccommodationCouncil taxWWW.WESTMINSTER.GOV.UK£1,189£1,189
17 January 2025AccommodationService charge & ground RentTideway£974£974
1 July 2024AccommodationService charge & ground RentTideway£809£809
10 April 2024AccommodationService charge & ground Rent[***] Service Charge£809£809
25 February 2025AccommodationService charge & ground RentTideway£755£755
15 November 2024Office CostsSoftware & applicationsCaseworker£720£720
31 March 2025MP TravelMileage - carAggregated figure for travel during 2024-25£712£712
1 November 2024Office CostsWebsite hosting and designBluetree - www.andrewmurrison.co.uk£360£360
12 April 2024AccommodationUtilitiesWater£360£360

Claims refused and money repaid, 2024-25

1 claim carries an amount IPSA did not pay or an amount repaid to it: £0 not paid and £960 repaid. A refusal is not a finding of wrongdoing — most are claims outside the scheme’s rules, or submitted without the evidence IPSA requires — and it is shown because leaving it out would show only the money that went out.

What this page does not show

Whether any of it was justified. IPSA accepted these claims under its own rules and the register records what was paid, not whether it should have been. A large total is not a finding about the member.

Nor how Dr Andrew Murrison compares with another member. After staffing the largest headings are accommodation and travel, and both are decided mostly by where a constituency is: a member several hundred miles from Westminster is eligible for costs a member with a London seat is not. Two members’ totals are two sets of rules as much as two sets of choices, and the length of service differs too.

It is also not pay. IPSA sets and publishes MPs’ salaries separately and they are not in this register; the staffing figure here is the salaries of the member’s employees.

All MPs’ business costs · Dr Andrew Murrison’s register of interests and votes · Sources